Allegra Photography

Thursday, November 11, 2010

I have decided to present my folio as an electronic book. I've decided to do these because I want it to be like a series of photos that tell a story. I am going to call it unexpected beauty because I don't think you look to a water reflection to see a really nice scenery.

HOWSome of the troubles I had when taking these photos was:- Weather. When looking for puddles it firstly had to rain to get these. Or I had to go to a river, lake, beach etc. During this semester it has rained a lot so that was good, but there were times I had to wait a long time for it to stop raining before I could go out and take photos.Water currents- When taking photos at the beach or at rivers I had to watch out for currents in the water as they would make the photo look blurry. I had trouble with this often when I went to the beach and had to find places where the current was not strong.- Brightness- I had to watch out for too much sunlight as I could have some photos turn out completely white. This meant I had to look for places and days that were not too sunny.- Darkness- This was similar to brightness, but instead I had to try and find the medium between the two so that i could get the best photo. I had to make sure I was looking at the photos after I took them to make sure I took enough photos and got the best I could.

WHYI decided to take photos of water reflections because I love the way that they portray different sceneries in a really unexpected place.

This week I chose some of my photos and had a look at editing them in Photoshop. I tried to see if I could change some of them to make the reflection stand out more or make the photo more brighter, etc.

These are some of the photos I equalized.

This photo became more bluer once it was equalized. I'm not sure if I want this to be mainly blue I think I'd rather all the colours to be evenly spread.

This photo became to bright and unrealistic.

I then tried making a few partially black and white; either the puddle or the background.

I think this one looks okay, but not really good. The puddle stands out, but I don't think it makes the photo better than the original.

I like this one the most, but it doesn't make the puddle stand out it makes it look dull.

I sought of like this one, but I think I like it a lot more in full colour.

This one just looks stupid, it is really unrealistic.

I also tried making part of this photo sepia.

I don't like what this effect did to the photo. The background looks really faded and although the reflection stands out it looks like it doesn't fit in.

I like how this photo turned out, but it still looks too edited and I want my photos to be more natural.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

For the holidays I went to the beach for a few days and thought I'd try and take some more water reflections. I tried most reflecting of lakes and the ocean, but tried to get different objects/scenes reflecting of them.

I really like this photo because of the detailed reflection.

I really like these photos of the puddle, the sky has some really nice colours and the road is a good contrast to it.

These ones remind me of sepia photos. I like these few because of the colour of the puddle and the effect that has had on the reflection.